Slow rollout of ceasefire and limited medical evacuations leave many amputees waiting for care; they describe lives frozen by injury and grief

Sitting in her wheelchair, Haneen al-Mabhouh dreams of rebuilding her family, of cradling a new baby. She dreams of walking again.

“It's my right to live, to have another child, to regain what I lost, to walk, just to walk again,” Al-Mabhouh said. “Now my future is paralysed. They destroyed my dreams.”

An Israeli airstrike in July 2024 smashed her home in central Gaza as she and her family slept. The 2-month-old ceasefire in Gaza has been slow to bring help for thousands of Palestinians who suffered amputations from Israeli bombardment over the past two years. The WHO said a shipment of essential prosthetic supplies recently made it into Gaza.

NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sitting in her wheelchair, Haneen al-Mabhouh dreams of rebuilding her family, of cradling a new baby. She dreams of walking again. But with her leg gone, her life in Gaza is on hold, she says, as she waits to go abroad for further treatment. An Israeli airstrike in July 2024 […]

The World Health Organization says Israel’s bombardment in Gaza for the past two years has left tens of thousands of Palestinians with life-changing injuries, including at least 6,000 people with amputations.